prices

Estimate for elektricity = 150 per month; (Does anyone have actual experience in Germany/Berlin? I got this from the Belgian rate. Denmark is much worse)

Estimate for elektricity installation = 100 once; (ditto)

Internet = 50 per month;

Internet installation = 100 once; (estimate)

obligations

pay at least one month of kaution for 3 months

start paying rent from the 3d month. We got 2 months for free, in exchange for non painted walls and no installed kitchen. This was considered not bad for 2300 euros.

pay costs of 450 (warm - cold) for the first 2 months

the plan

Kaut = kaution

W = warmmitte

Kalt = kaltmitte

c1 = cost of gas, heating

c2 = cost of elektricity, internet

cinit = cost of installation of internet, elektricity

We talked about paying all the kaution up front, to have a good relationship with the landlord. So that's all on the first month. Another import thing is that we start paying rent from the first month, so we would have 2 month of rent in a communal pot. This would be needed from the start for the kitchen and other first-off things.

Month

Amount

Calculation

Remarks

1

5050

3 * Kaut + Kalt(pot) + c1 + c2 + cinit

Pot has 1150

2

1800

Kalt(pot) + c1 + c2

Pot has 2300

n

1800

W + c2

the 7 people calculation

The observant reader wil have noticed that every month will cost us 1800, apart from the first one. Assuming 7 people: